The Process Project : NCSU

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|MIRANDA JULY|

www.mirandajuly.com

Joanie 4 Jackie (formerly Big Miss Moviola) - movie chain letter program for girls www.joanie4jackie.com

How Will I Know Her? http://www.joanie4jackie.com/oberhausen/english/index.html

http://www.learningtoloveyoumore.com/

That Word which means smuggling across borders incorporated

Lee Walton

Christo and Jeanne-Claude

Ben Vautier

Ben Vautier

Counterproductive Industries is a Chicago-based group of designer/activists who create large-scale productions (installations, festivals, community events, mass-produced media) to stir up the downtown environment and the minds of Chicago's citizens. The themes of their projects are mostly political and include Chicago mayor Richard Daley, the Bush administration, September 11th, the war in Iraq, MTV's The Real World: Chicago, and gentrification of area neighborhoods, among others. The media for these projects can be anything from music and video to stickers, pamplets, and posters. One way that Counterproductive Industries's work relates to our studio work is that they almost always ask for community involvement in their work, much like what we've seen with "Learning to Love You More." An example of this is the installation of the "God Bless Graffiti Coalition" at Mass MoCA's exhibition "The Interventionists" last year. For this project, CPI called out over the web for graffiti artists to enter their street art to be part of the coalition's work. These entries were then collaged and arranged to form a dynamic, visually appealing wall of "outlaw" art at the museum, both in support of creative (not criminal) youth making graffiti and in criticism of graffiti abatement policies.

CPI's work also relates to our studio projects because of their focus on the municipality of Chicago, on both its internal socio-political problems and the external problems that affect its citizens. CPI works mostly within the boundaries of the city, using the talent of its citizens and the creative thought of group members to spark awareness of these situations and influences. For example, at the "Autonomous Territories of Chicago" festival, organized by Counterproductive Industries, local artists and community groups were asked to come together and create booths highlighting what their work would look like if not constrained by the realities of capitalism and laws. CPI makes events like these the catalyst for work on future projects, using the energy and contacts associated with one production to make another for a different protest subject, such as the Daley Village hoax housing project and a video documenting these and other protests. Lots of information on their website, definitely worth checking out.

I found another great site that deals with the concept of psychogeography. It is interesting because it deals with getting people to notice and look at their surroundings in a different way.

Psychogeography

HI all,
this is great to see the brains working overtime on all this stuff.

I noticed the link about Psychogeography...My friend at Glowlab (Christina Ray) is always doing interesting things. Here is her link:

http://glowlab.blogs.com/ray/

You guys rock, keep me in the loop.

make,
Lee